I have decided to reinvent my blog. I don't want to close it, I am simply rethinking it. Sometimes we need to step back from things. I'm still reading, writing, thinking about faith issues, but I have not felt compelled to post anything I have written. Maybe I don't think it is good enough to post. I like to be clear in my thinking and writing, and if I don't think I am clear enough, I'll keep it to myself. I want to be clear.
Faith is a vital issue to me. It is a thoughtful issue. One that requires daily practice and thinking. I think I may be in a "circulating" point. Where my ideas are, well, "circulating." I think Christians have "shapes" to their faith. Some days faith takes a better shape than others. It hasn't gone away, it is just moving and reshaping. I don't think this is bad. I think everything in our lives have a fluid nature to them. You're not the same person you were at 25 than when you reach 50. I think faith moves in the same way and I think that movement is created by study and thinking. The more you know, the more you know. Your faith deepens and becomes wider. And that can lead you to the "next." What is next? It's always next, isn't it.
So, onward. I am reading two books I would like to recommend. "The Faith," by Charles Colson, about a fuller understanding of defining faith to others. The main issue with Colson's book is that as Christian's, somehow we are unable to define exactly what our faith is to other people. We don't fully know our own faith. It's an eyeopener and it will make you think. Another is the excellent biography of Jonathan Edwards, by George M. Marsden, called "Jonathan Edwards, A Life." Edwards is considered to be America's most important religious figure. It's a big book, over 500 pages, but very well written and very interesting. I suggest you check both of them out.
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